[Modernman]

The US can survive whatever China throws at us and we got the fully armed and OPERATIONAL missile defense system. China would not survive what we can do to it though.

Well, we don't have a fully operation missile defense system.

Anyway, so what if we can wipe China off the map? Are you willing to role the nuclear dice with regards to North Korea knowing that one of the possible outcomes is 100 million or so dead Americans?

[Paul_Denton]

As horrible as that would be it is better than a complete MAD scenario as with the Soviets in the cold war.